Multiple bills dealing with protecting student data have been filed in the Pennsylvania legislature.
The bills include provision to set standards on education vendors for:
- Prohibit tapping student information to target them with advertising;
- Prohibit amassing profiles of students for non-educational purposes;
- Prohibit the sale or sharing of student information outside of narrow circumstances.
- Require vendors to secure student data and delete it all upon the district’s request.
- Districts could continue to hire cloud computing firms to handle student data.
- Vendors would be contractually required to ensure that the data remains the property of the school district
- Vendor contracts will prohibit the student data use for purposes not outlined in the contract
- Permit students to review and correct their information.
- Require contracts with those vendors would oblige the companies to disclose any data breach in which student records are compromised.
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